David Valadao

livestock haulers in my district and across the country have a challenging task of balancing both the safety of motorists and the health and welfare of animals being transported.

Audits like these provide HUD the opportunity to reevaluate policies and initiatives, make improvements to take sufficient steps to reduce abuse such as over-income families in public housing.

But when we pull back, when we don't go on our budgeting and what you are doing, it gives China the ability to be the more powerful person in the world and take a position that we are pulling back.

Does the Department of Transportation require detailed reports on how the California High-Speed Rail Authority is spending those Federal dollars?

California has received $3.55 billion in Federal funding.

HUD is tasked with supporting housing needs across America in urban, suburban, and rural communities alike.

Prior to the approval of this Federal grant, all 14 members of the California Republican delegation sent a letter to you regarding high-speed rail being an infeasible, counterproductive project.

I think one of the things that I am very concerned about, and just in the last month or so, I probably have been in about 10 different countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, a lot of these different countries.

What I am seeing from my point of view, it gives Putin the ability to get whatever he wants.

These communities depend on Federal community development funding for housing, infrastructure, community facilities.

All right. And then in my district, my district has many small communities with a very limited tax base.

Accordingly, Congress provided more than $20 million over the requested amount in fiscal year 2017 to further support and accelerate the safe integration of drones into national air space.

I understand your office published an audit back in July 2015, which concluded that over-income tenants blatantly abused the public housing system.

In 2015, Congress passed the FAST Act, the largest transportation package in more than a decade.

The San Pedro Bay Ports Complex, which includes both the Port of L.A. and Long Beach, accounts for one-quarter of the Nation's cargo and supports over 3 million jobs nationwide.

California receives only 15 percent back of what the shippers at our harbors pay into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

I urge this esteemed subcommittee to fund the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' navigation program at $2.9 billion for fiscal year 2018 and 2017.

The Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA's purpose is to shift the focus of food safety towards prevention.

You mentioned in that speech a point where the System could be left with too few banks.

Pricing has been difficult and has been one of the things that we have worked on through the Farm Bill for California specifically.

Yes, it is a serious issue. And it is literally the definition on how the ownership or what the ownership of a facility is.

making sure that you put people on the ground that actually understand what agriculture is, is something that is amazingly helpful when you are trying to make decisions.

Your budget was used as a political tool to convince people that Republicans were in the tank for Wall Street.

With this new Administration, we're making some headway.

I urge you to continue to support SNAP in the farm bill.